Contents.
planet: 4 - Mars
satellites: M1 - Phobos: 660,
M2 - Deimos: 639
total number: 1299
type: absolute
dates: 1988-1988
observatory: 188 - Shokin Majdanak
Reference.
Kudryavtsev S.M., Shokin Yu.A., Yevstigneeva N.M. (1992)
The improved Martian satellites positional series derived
from the observations during the 1988 opposition (in English).
Preprint. Sternberg State Astronomical Institute.
N. 24. P. 1-30.
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Informations.
relative to: absolute
reference frame: astrometric
centre of frame: topocentre
epoch of equinox: J2000
time scale: UTC
reduction: Catalogue FK5
coordinates: absolute
diff. refraction: removed
receptor: photographic
telescope: Zeiss-1000, D = 1000 mm
observers: Shokin Yu.A.
data included in standard data file: no
Comments.
Format.
1. Number of satellite (N sat): 1 - Phobos, 2 - Deimos.
2. Year of the moment of observation
3. Month of the moment of observation
4. Day of the moment of observation with decimals
5. Hour of right ascension (alpha, h)
6. Minute of right ascension (alpha, m)
7. Second of right ascension (alpha, s)
8. Degree of declination (delta, deg)
9. Minute of declination (delta, ' )
10. Second of declination (delta, '' )
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N Year UTC alpha delta
sat month day with
decimals h m s deg ' ''
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